The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 - Brossura

Hobsbawm, E. J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0297816357 ISBN 13: 9780297816355

Casa editrice: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995

Riassunto

This title is about the death of the 19th century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilization. It is about hopes realized which turned into fears: an era of unparalled peace engendering an era of unparalled war; revolt and revolution inevitably emerging on the outskirts of a stable and flourishing Western society; an era of profound identity crises for bourgeois classes whose traditional moral foundations crumbled under the pressure of their own accumulations of wealth and comfort, among a new and sudden mass labour movement which rejected capitalism, new middle classes which rejected liberalism. It is about world empires built and held with almost contemptuous ease by small bodies of Europeans, which were to last barely a human lifetime, and a European domination of world history never more confident than at the moment when it was about to disappear forever.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0297816357
• ISBN 13: 9780297816355
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416